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The palace of Versailles was the home of the King and Queen. They had lots of parties there. -
He moved there from the capital of France -
The marriage of King Louis and Marie Antoinette from Austria. -
a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. -
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the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath in the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Versailles palace -
Revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille. -
one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. -
When people were being mass executed in France during the French Revolution -
overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. -
Napoleon declared himself as emperor of France after the government takeover. -
he resulting Civil Code of France marked the first major revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era. -
France tried to invade Russia and were defeated due to the harsh conditions -
Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium